SPRING yet? I'm so ready!











This past week in clay class we created cherry blossoms. Macon, GA always has a big Cherry Blossom Festival every spring and since I am so ready for Spring I thought it was the perfect time to create cherry blossoms.



Roz

























Alice



























Sherry

























Elaine



























Lisa









































Sherry

Yesterday in paint class we painted a blue bird on a branch with blossoms

mine

Jenny

Ann

Alice

Sherry

Lorrinda

This was Lorrinda's first class with me and she did such a fabulous job!

Kim

Sherry

Ellen's

Sorry Ellen - don't know why (no matter how I crop it) it won't go the other way -urgh!

Can you believe this is the last week of February?! Before we know it it will be Christmas.

Have been swamped and unable to visit blogs - would love just a day to visit everyone!!

Have a fabulous day.

Sandy

I CAN FINALLY UPLOAD PICTURES!!!!!

It sure did take a while to get this picture thing fixed. I guess I had used my max quota of MB allowed on my blog and since I had I had to purchase more storage through Picasa Web Albums. Didn't know there was a max!
I have so much to share with ya! I had my very first Studio Home Dimensions Certifications this past week and we had such a fabulous time!
The ladies that attended were so IMPRESSED and EXCITED about all of the tools, clay, paint, project pieces, etc. they got at the certification. I was so impressed I had to take a photo or two!

Sherry & I

Alice

working hard putting her clay rose together

Sherry

working on her leaves for her project board

Kim, Me and Alice

Sherry & Kim

Kim and Alice

Sherry & Kim

By the last day we were all a little

loopy and silly but we had so much fun!

Alice

Here they are with a couple of their finished projects! Aren't they gorgeous?!

Today we had a lily clay class. The ladies that attended today had also come to the lily paint class a couple of weeks ago and added their lily to their paintings.

















Sherry

Alice

Roz

Lanelle

Roz, Lanelle, Sherry & Alice

Kim

Emma

Chris

















Emma & Chris

How sweet are they?! Hubby and wife came to paint together.

Sherry

Sherry stayed after the paint class

and created one out of clay to add to her painting.















Sherry

















Jennifer

Finally huh Jason?!

Hubby is enjoying his new job f~ thanks for all that have asked!! I do miss having him at home everyday with me though! Had gotten quite used to him being home.

Have you checked out my website? www.sandymctier.com I just loaded some pictures on my store that are available for sale. A few of my friends painted these incredible paintings and more will be added soon!

Please pray for my nephew Chandler who has travelled to Argentina to play soccer with the Olympic Development Team. He is an incredible player and we are so proud of him. He flys home on Sunday so please pray that his travels will be safe!

Have a fabulous day.

Blessings,
Sandy

What's Up with blogger?
I'm ready to start a new blog using something else - I cannot get anything uploaded - especially pictures. I have paid now for extra storage since that is what it says I need to do but it still won't let me post pics. Updated a couple of things today and then all of my posts went away??
Is anyone else having blogger problems? Please let me know. I'm hoping they go away soon!

Hope you all had a wonderful Valentine's Day! I did. Spent mine with 3 awesome ladies at my first clay certification and then home to spend the rest with my hubby and our 3 boys. We got chinese takeout so I didn't have to cook which is always a plus!

Have a fabulous day. I'm going to go and sulk now that I cannot do much more on my blog but wait and pray that the bugs get worked out soon.

Blessings,
Sandy

OWOH Winners~ Since I cannot post the really cute photo of my son since blogger is still being a MEANY here are the winners of my OWOH giveaways ~


Janet at The Lavender Loft - Cork and Grapes

Danielle - Collective Elements Blog - The clay sunflower tin



Thank you all for participating in this fabulous event and LISA O. YOU ROCK! Thanks for hosting it yet again! I look forward to year 4 next year!!



I'm off to email you both!!



Today was the first day of my very first Studio Home Dimensions Clay Certification and it was awesome. The three ladies taking the course are incredible artists and I just love being around them!


Have a great day.
Sandy

Blogger is being a meany!
Okay, so it's Wednesday and I have tried every day to upload photos and still cannot! PHEWY!
I just uploaded some PAINTINGS by some friends of mine on my website at
http://www.sandymctier.com/ hope you'll go by and check them out under MY STORE!

I'm gonna continue working on getting my photos uploaded. This has happened before and I've seen it on other peoples blog as well - so maybe it's just a glitch that will work itself out! Sorry for my students that are waiting to see their photos - especially Jason waiting to see a pic of his girl Jennifer!! Jason is serving our country and is stationed in Iraq right now ~ THANK YOU JASON!! I hope blogger will let me post the pics soon.

Have a great day!
Sandy

UPLOADING ISSUES!

OKAY....so blogger is giving me a hard time today! Can't upload pictures! Frustrating!!

Anyway, finally took my oldest to the doctor and he has a full blown ear infection, sinus infection and stayed home today from school ~ first day since the beginning of the year.

I had some fabulous classes this weekend and can't wait to share the photos with you. Will keep trying to upload them today.



WATCH DONNA DEWBERRY ON HSN this week!
TUESDAY Feb. 10th 7a.m. & 11a.m.
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 11th 5a.m. and 4p.m.

Have a fabulous day.
Sandy

NO LONGER MIA!

OH MY! Has it really been that long since I updated??
I've been painting, teaching classes, getting ready for classes, spending time with my parents while they were here from Germany (which was a fabulous visit -but I don't have one photo to share - phewy) and catching up with friends I haven't chatted with in YEARS on Facebook!

Today we painted Lilies and everyone in todays class is coming back later in the month to put the clay lily on it like I have on mine ~ so they've all left space on the right hand side to put their clay lily.












mine











Roz

Roz won the drawing and got to take home the piece I painted in class today
















Lanelle

















Sherry

Alice

On Monday we painted a floral arrangement and I just love the "Spring" feel of this project! I'm ready for some Spring weather - it's freezing here today!

Charlotte

Sharon

Susan

Karen

Lori

Carol

Dee

Tera

Tera won the drawing and got to take home the project piece I painted in class.

Sherry

Last week we painted a field of flowers!

Megan

Kacy

Kim

Sherry

Jenny

Roz

Sherry

So back to the cold weather. It's so cold here - I know my bloggin friends up north that deal with the snow, ice and other winter weather I'm sorry to moan but it's too cold here for me!!

I started my car this morning to warm it up before paint class and then came back in the house to spend 10 minutes looking for my keys - it's so cold my brain wasn't quite working yet - or maybe the coffee hadn't quite kicked in yet? We'll blame it on one of those things!!hehehe

Hope you are having a great week and staying warm! Don't forget to sign up for my giveaway a couple of posts down and click on the "world picture" to go on over to Lisa's blog and see all the amazing bloggers out their participating in the giveaway. The drawing will be on Feb. 12th and all those that commented on that post will go into my drawing!

Blessings,

Sandy